| 1 |
Important Role of Water Molecule, Hydration of Amino Acids, Protein and other Biological Materials (PDF) |
| 2 |
Amino Acids: Their Chemical and Physical Properties (PDF) |
| 3 |
Primary and Secondary Structures of Proteins
Dihedral Angles, Peptide Bonds, Planar Structure, Relationship and Propensity of Amino Acid Sequence, Secondary Structure
Ramachandran Plot |
| 4 |
Alpha-helices, 310 Helix, pi Helix, Beta-helices, etc.
Variation of Helices and their Helical Bundles, Two Strand Coiled-coils, Three or Four Strand Coiled-coils, Supercoils
Various Helical Rich Protein Structure Models
Alpha-helices in Biological Materials |
| 5 |
Helical Coiled-coils
Two-, Three-, Four- Stranded Helical Bundles
Applying Coiled-coils to Nanomaterials, Molecular Springs, Switches, etc. |
| 6 |
Beta Sheets: Antiparallel, Parallel, and Twist; Beta Sheet Rich Proteins; Beta Sheets in Biological Materials (PDF) |
| 7 |
Practical Aspects of Single Crystal X-ray Crystallography, Part 1: X-ray Single Crystal Diffraction, Fiber Diffraction, and Preparation of Samples (PDF) |
| 8 |
NMR (Guest Lecturer: Peter Carr, MIT Media Lab) (PDF) |
| 9 |
Practical Aspects of Single Crystal X-ray Crystallography, Part 2 (PDF) |
| 10 |
Analytical Approaches and Instrumentation (Guest Lecturer: Sotirus Koutsopoulos, Ph.D) (PDF) |
| 11 |
Silk (PDF) |
| 12 |
Biomineralization: Sea Creatures (PDF) |
| 13 |
Biomineralization: Bones and Teeth (PDF) |
| 14 |
Bioadhesives (PDF) |
| 15 |
Lipids as Building Materials (PDF) |
| 16 |
Polysaccharides and Oligosaccharides (PDF) |
| 17 |
Francis Crick Film |
| 18 |
Molecular Structure and Self-assembly of DNA and RNA (PDF) |
| 19 |
Macromolecular Interactions and Protein and Adsorption (Guest Lecturer: Larry Unsworth, Ph.D, National Institute for Nanotechnology) (PDF)
Crystallography (Guest lecturer: Liselotte Kaiser, MIT Center for Biomedical Engineering) |
| 20 |
DNA Molecular Machines (PDF) |
| 21 |
Fluorescent Proteins (PDF) |
| 22 |
Self-assembling Peptide Systems (Dr. Zhang's Research) (PDF) |
| 23 |
Self-assembling Peptide Systems (Dr. Zhang's Research) (cont.) (PDF)
Applying Biomimicry to Nanotechnology (Guest Lecture by Andreas Mershin) |
| 24 |
Research in Biomaterials (PDF) |
| 25-26 |
Student Research Activity Presentations |